The article reveals the peculiarities of organization contactless sales drugs through so-called online stores and defines role key figures this type criminal business in order to understand difficulties that law enforcement agencies face during detection investigation cases distribution way. In addition, main links structure Internet network are highlighted. general, state was characterized a f...

This research develops a hybrid model by integrating Self Organization Map (SOM) neural network, Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Fuzzy Rule Base (FRB) to forecast the future sales of a printed circuit board factory. This hybrid model encompasses two novel concepts: (1) clustering an FRB into different clusters, thus the interaction between fuzzy rules is reduced and a more accurate prediction model...

PURPOSE Factors likely to influence drug expenditures, drug expenditure trends in 2012, and projected drug expenditures for U.S. nonfederal hospitals and clinics in 2013 are discussed. METHODS Prescription drug expenditure data for 2011 through September 2012 were obtained from the IMS Health National Sales Perspectives database. Expenditure projections were based on a combination of quantita...

Forecasting accuracy is very important in revenue management. Improved forecast accuracy, improves the decision made about inventory and this lead to a greater revenue. In the airline’s revenue management systems, the inventory is controlled by changing the product availability. As a consequence of changing availability, the recorded sales become a censored observation of underlying demand, so ...

We present a method to determine Fashion DNA, coordinate vectors locating fashion items in an abstract space. Our approach is based on a deep neural network architecture that ingests curated article information such as tags and images, and is trained to predict sales for a large set of frequent customers. In the process, a dual space of customer style preferences naturally arises. Interpretatio...

We present an empirical study of the ordering behavior of retail stores in a supermarket chain to investigate whether store managers deviate systematically from order advices generated by an automated replenishment system. We consider concern for forecast errors and handling workload to be possible motivations for such deviations. Using orders and shipments data, and POS sales data for 19,417 i...

this research explores the effective ways of sales promotion at liability insurance according to upgrade policies in tehran. the goal is development of planning strategic to help iran insurance industry.  first, we evaluate opinions and views of iran insurance company experts and iran insurance sales agents in tehran on sales promotion (also, priority of the promotion policies) of liability ins...

Recent work has shown that search query volume correlates well with a variety of phenomena, from influenza caseloads to economic indicators like real-estate prices, auto sales, and travel statistics. In this paper, we investigate the degree to which search behavior predicts the commercial success of cultural products, namely movies, video games, and songs. In contrast with previous work that ha...

A new Information Aggregation Mechanism (IAM), developed via laboratory experimental methods, is implemented inside Intel Corporation in a long-running field test. The IAM, incorporating features of pari-mutuel betting, is uniquely designed to collect and quantize as probability distributions dispersed, subjectively held information. IAM participants’ incentives support timely information revel...

Recent work has demonstrated that Web search volume can "predict the present," meaning that it can be used to accurately track outcomes such as unemployment levels, auto and home sales, and disease prevalence in near real time. Here we show that what consumers are searching for online can also predict their collective future behavior days or even weeks in advance. Specifically we use search que...